Outback - The Barndens

I was expecting... just flat, open nothing, I was really surprised that

the desert was actually quite green

at the time.

Cousin

At the end of the day we always got these

magnificent sunsets

and we did wonder why it was we didn't notice them when we were at home, were they more spectacular because we were in the outback?

Jeff

You just stop hurrying and you stop thinking ahead weeks, you just think for the day, and

you just enjoy being there

and relaxing, and just taking in as much as you possibly can while you're there.

Cousin

Experiencing just that beauty of the place, and

knowing just how different it is from here, you become very protective of that,

so that when you hear about people wanting to do something to the land like sinking another mine or something, you think, 'Oh no not there, it can't be there, it's so beautiful", but before I would have thought, 'Oh well, it's only desolate land out there, so what does it matter?' And that's changed totally.

Anne

Quite bare and lonely, and you start to connect with it,

it's sort of like you live there.

Kiron

I think you get a better understanding of the indigenous people who live there, and you feel the land is just so beautiful there, and you understand why it's so special to them. And it makes you proud to be Australian there as well... you often hear about being proud to be an Australian, but you never really experience it, and then

all of a sudden you realise, well, it's my country as well.

Cousin